Mass Effect 4: Why Isn’t Commander Shepard Coming Back

It has been confirmed that Mass Effect 4 will have a completely new focus, since Commander Shepard’s destiny has been fulfilled and there’s nothing much to go on about. There are mainly two reasons that won’t allow the hero of Mass Effect to return in upcoming games, at least not as a main character.

That just sounds stupid...How the hell is it ruined because they choose to focus on a new story that doesn't involve Shepard? His story is pretty much finished...People complain when other games keep going with the same people, they also never said that they wouldn't ever do anything with Shepard

As time passes, my disappointed in ME2 and 3 grows. I've just lost all interest in this universe. I'll only be slightly interested in the new game if it is set AFTER the events of ME3 and even then it will not be likely a day one purchase.

I disagree completely. The journey through the three games was among the best experiences I've had in videogames. The ending could be considered questionable, but for me it in no way "ruined" what my Shepard had experienced up to the finale. If your experience was completely tarnished by the final 20 minutes and that ruins the series for you, I would question if you enjoyed the ME galaxy to begin with. The characters in Shepard's crew are memorable, far more than most in gaming.

Don't get me wrong, I had fun and it has NOTHING to do with the ending. I wasn't one of those screaming for clarity or whatever. For me, Mass Effect was perfect, Mass Effect 2 had great characters but the planet scanning and the terminator at the end was terrible. And in Mass Effect 3 Shepard should have been wearing a shirt and tie, the game's story in general was bad.

I think the game play was terrific with choices and actions that altered outcomes, the writers did a fantastic job in my opinion. I enjoyed the ending, I liked it enough to play through to see the others and got hooked to the ME3 multiplayer along the way.

I think it would be good to have a new set of playable characters and storyline trajectories.

I believe it should be a sequel and it would need to make some assumptions as to your choices from the decisions from the 1st trilogy. It would be incredibly difficult to further the universe without picking a plot line to run with.

The consoles could synthesise any name I type for my character and blend it seamlessly into conversations.

The Kinect / PS Eye could capture my features and make the character look just like me.

They could even record me reading a page of text to get my voice print and from that recreate my voice to say anything they want in game. There could also be personality settings. So I can pick between polite and rude version of me. With one dropping F-Bombs every few minutes like Deb in Dexter.

so he died in the first mass effect then he was brought back to life in number 2 and now he is separated in the mass effect world by putting himself into the cycle in number 3. Why can't he start out as a child and then as he gets old lets say 18 years later he starts getting flashbacks and it starts out as a new series of mass effect

I think it will be fine without Shepard. He made the other three games, but let someone else take over. If not, then eventually Shepard would get too over played. Changing everything worked for Star Trek when they did The Next Generation, so it can't be that bad right?

all series of mass effect was tremendously awesome and extraordinary. I love mass effect 1,2,3. I would like to see a new character in mass effect 4 including shepard. And would also like to see how they incorporate other characters as well in the next game. which would engross us the same way as it had done before.... waiting like hell for ME4